Confiscation decisions officials of 2nd and 3rd ranks

The list of persons who acquired assets illegally or by suspicious means and that could be confiscated, can extend to officials of second and third ranks who served under the former regime," Confiscation Commission Chairman Adel Ben Ismail announced. The latter pointed out in this regard, that the confiscation decisions could concern their assets, without forgetting those of the 144 persons already on the list established after the Revolution, as well as the additional list including 40 individuals who have kinship with the above-mentioned 144 persons. During a news conference held on Tuesday in Tunis, Mr. Adel Ben Ismail specified that the commission had issued 158 confiscation decisions on real estate bonds owned by the family of the deposed President and that of his wife and on 41 economic enterprises. He pointed out in this regard, that the ousted president's assets in Tunisia consist of exploited and non-exploited real estates which are registered or not registered in his name or that of his wife. These assets involve, he went on saying, economic enterprises in his name and in those of his children as well as bogus companies whose number had not been set yet, as is the case of the list of assets owned by the remaining members of the deposed president's family and that of his wife. "The commission will take care of transferring the ownership of the confiscated companies to the State, with the aim of preserving jobs and the national economy resources," he specified. Mr. Ben Isamil pointed out that an official receiver had been appointed on the assets owned by the deposed president's son-in-law Marouane Mabrouk, specifying that his shares in the capital of "GAT" company had been frozen. In another connection, the commission chairman announced the confiscation of the "Princesse Holding" Group owned by the ousted president's son-in-law Sakhr Materi, a group which includes 32 economic enterprises, pointing out that 10 other files of companies' confiscation are under preparation. Besides, he said that the State pays one hundred thousand dinars a month as a landing fee for two aircrafts of the "Princesse Holding" Group owned by Sakhr Materi, in a Swiss airport, recalling that confiscation decisions had been issued to this end.